Home Net Pakistan organised a national conference to show appreciation for home-based workers, along with an exhibition in a local hotel here on Thursday. While the conference addressed several issues revolving around the lives and work of home-based women workers especially, the exhibition attracted several people, especially women, who bought and sold many handicrafts and other items.
Items sold included embroidered shirts, hand-worked shalwars, dupattas, chappals, greeting cards, shawls, and artificial costume jewellery. Hand-made items were brought from Peshawer, Abbotabad, Hyderabad, Faisalabad, Vihari, Bahawalpur and Quetta. Speakers included Mehnaz Rafi, Salman Abid, Zohra Akbar and Irfana Jabbar.
